sinsemilla

Not diet soda, the astronauts are not on board yet, the arm still has to flip the rocket over, the crane like that could never have two mentos mid submersion already and have a third ready to drop in (let alone without it already reacting), and those are not even mentos.

chadwsmith

I think it would have been visually easier to power a rocket car with mints and soda than an upside-down, hope-they-will-rotate-it, why-aren't-the-astronauts-in-there-already, NASA-doesn't-use-shuttles-anymore, Space craft.

woottoady

beltbucklebob

sinsemilla wrote:Not diet soda, the astronauts are not on board yet, the arm still has to flip the rocket over, the crane like that could never have two mentos mid submersion already and have a third ready to drop in (let alone without it already reacting), and those are not even mentos.

Overall horrible design.

COMPLETELY agree. I didn't vote, so I can't bellyache too much, but this week's derby must have been WEAK if this got third.

ENarciso

Just curious because I'm new here, but this is marked as 3rd place and also says "Guest editor (insert name here)'s pick". That makes it sound like the shirt was chosen and didn't necessarily win, is that the case?

mkdr

ENarciso wrote:Just curious because I'm new here, but this is marked as 3rd place and also says "Guest editor (insert name here)'s pick". That makes it sound like the shirt was chosen and didn't necessarily win, is that the case?

Yes, the way the derby works has changed in the last few months. Here is the blog post with the details, and you can also see the discussion linked to that post for more details. I don't pay enough attention to give you the nitty-gritty around how often the 2nd and 3rd place winners come from the fog (I believe they often do, but might not have always been the exact 2nd and 3rd place by votes).

forever fighting the urge to buy something just because it is cheap and cool...wait, it's cheap and cool, let me click that big yellow button!

lmensor

I don't know enough about art and copyright infringement, but I'm sure the artists have limitations. Which is probably why the artwork on the soda makes it look like a Coke yet the words look like they spell Pepsi, so that you just know it's soda.

oakenspirit

auctionsaver

This kind of makes me sad. How can we only spend .5% of the budget on NASA. You look at this and other worthy programs such as our national parks and education, and then you compare it to the 24% that goes to defense alone, and it just kills you.

What really gets me going is knowing that the hubble is going to come down just like skylab because we no longer have the resources or budget to boost its orbit.

fuacka

VooDooPC

auctionsaver wrote:This kind of makes me sad. How can we only spend .5% of the budget on NASA. You look at this and other worthy programs such as our national parks and education, and then you compare it to the 24% that goes to defense alone, and it just kills you.

What really gets me going is knowing that the hubble is going to come down just like skylab because we no longer have the resources or budget to boost its orbit.

Wasn't Skylab going to be reused but was destroyed upon reentry when they were going to refurbish it? Isn't there a telescope better than Hubble being developed right now to replace it?

drfine

VooDooPC wrote:Wasn't Skylab going to be reused but was destroyed upon reentry when they were going to refurbish it? Isn't there a telescope better than Hubble being developed right now to replace it?

I don't know about the Skylab do-hickey but there is a new and improved telescope to replace the Hubble. It's the James Webb Space Telescope. However, it won't be launched until around 2018. (as per Wikipedia).

OldGlory747

wellarmedsheep wrote:This shirt requires way to much thought to be clever. At first inspection the thrust would drive it into the ground. You have to assume that the arm then flips it the right direction...

I'm going to venture that it's just meant to be appreciated by clever people.

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